Mail Setup Instructions: Eudora IMAP-SSL

Instructions
Converting from POP to IMAP
Watching your quotas when using IMAP

Eudora 5.1 with IMAP-SSL (Windows)

IMAP is a mail download protocol which allows you to keep folders on the server and access these folders from multiple computers. This is great for users who don't use just one computer to check their email. IMAP downloads a local copy of your mailbox and folders from the server to the computer you are connecting from. If you create folders on your computer, you will have to sync up with the server in order to make it accessible globally. However, you're not required to create folders. You can work with just one mailbox/ inbox, if you like.

Make sure you're running Eudora 5.1.  To find out what version of
Eudora you're running, go to the Help menu and select About Eudora.

From the Tools menu, click on Personalities.  You'll see
a list of "personalities" in the left window pane.

Right click on <Dominant> personality. Select Properties. 
Each personality represents one email account from which you 
check your mail. If you've configured your DECF account under 
another personality name, select that one instead.

Under Generic Properties tab, make sure the following is set:

    Real Name:       your-real-name (e.g., Arthur Dent)

    Return Address:  your-DECF-username@newton.berkeley.edu 
                     (e.g., adent@newton.berkeley.edu)

    Login Name:      your-DECF-username (e.g., adent)

    Authentication Allowed: CHECKED

    SMTP Server:   -  relay.decf.berkeley.edu

    Set Secure Socket when Sending to If Available, STARTTLS.
    if this doesn't work because your ISP is blocking port 25, then set it to Required, Alternate Port

Click on Incoming Mail tab, fill in the following:

    Server:                        maxwell.berkeley.edu

    Configuration:                 IMAP 

    IMAP Mailbox Location Prefix:  mail/ (DECF IMAP users: don't use 
                                   "newtonhome/mail")

    For New Mail, download:        Minimal Headers Only

    When I delete a message:       Mark it as deleted

    Authentication Style:          Passwords

    Secure Socket When Receiving:  Required, alternate Port

Click OK

Check mail. Enter your DECF password when prompted. This will fail 
because you need to add maxwell's server certificate to Eudora.  
Note: This is not the same as your APOP password.  If you don't remember
your DECF password, see a lab staff during their Office Hours.

To add the server certificate, right click on <Dominant> again
and select Properties. 

Click Incoming Mail.

Click Last SSL Info.

Click Certificate Information manager at the bottom
of the page.

Click Add to Trusted.

Click Done.

Click OK.

Click OK again.

Now you can check mail again.

To view your list of mailboxes, select Mailboxes from the 
Tools menu. You will see your mailboxes on the left of the
screen, under <Dominant>

Note: With IMAP, you must expunge your deleted messages
manually. (Under Message menu, click Purge Messages).

In Eudora, the Mailbox window contains two sections. The section labeled "Eudora" is like your local hard drive. It contains all the mail you've downloaded via POP. The section labeled 'maxwell.berkeley.edu' is your IMAP server drive. Therefore, it is important that you know where you are going to create any new mail folders. If you create a new mail folder under "Eudora", then it's a local folder. This means that if you access your mail from another computer via IMAP, you will not see this folder.

If you're migrating from POP to IMAP and you DID NOT leave your mail on the server, you may want to transfer existing Local Mailboxes to the IMAP server. This will allow you to see the contents of these mailboxes when accessing mail from other machines. If you always check mail from one machine, you do not have to do this.

Transfering Local Inbox

Open the local Inbox mailbox under Eudora and mark all of the messages by using the Select All feature from the Edit menu.

From the Transfer menu select the item <Dominant> (or the personality that your maxwell.berkeley.edu account is under) and then select Inbox. All messages are moved to Inbox on the IMAP server.

Transfering Other Local Mailboxes

Create a new mailbox on the IMAP server.  Right clicking on <Dominant> and select New....

Enter the name of the new mailbox, for example OldMail. Note that the name of the mailbox you are creating may be the same name as the mailbox on the local hard drive.

Open the local mailbox and mark all of the messages by clicking Select All from the Edit menu.

From the Message menu select Move Message and then select the mailbox you just created. All messages are moved to the mailbox on the IMAP server.

The transfer may take some time depending on the number and size of messages being transferred.

Verify that the procedure has completed successfully by opening the newly created mailbox under <Dominant>

.

Continue for all mailboxes you wish to transfer.